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BUTTON OR STUD.

No. 311,474. Patented Feb, 8, 1 885 F|E.1. FIGZ. HGT.

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CHARLES H. OOOKE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO J. B. MATHEWSON & CO.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,474, dated February 3, 1885.

Application filed October 1'7, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. COOKE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Providence, in the State of 5 Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Sleeve and Collar Button and Stud, of which the following is a specification.

In the most common form of detachable buttons the shoe swings upon the end of the post into .a line substantially parallel to the plane of the post for insertion in the garment. Such construction requires an inordinate length of post in order to allow the shoe to swing clear of the material in looking, and

after looking, the button, owing to this unneo essary length of post, will hang too loosely in the garment. The most persistent efforts of inventive skill have therefore been directed to the shortening of the post and the coir 2o sequent increasing of the efficiency of the button.

In my invention the above described objectionable features are wholly avoided by cutting the shoe into two parts, and making 2 5 one part stationary and hinging the other to swing through a half-circle over upon the stationary part of the shoe when the button is to be applied or detached.

To secure the button in the button'hole the movable part is swung back into the plane of the fixed part. Said movable part is held in the last-mentioned position by the action of a spring against a portion of the shoe lying behind the axis of the hinge. By this de- 7 scribed construction I am enabled to provide a post of only sufficient length to properly engage the material in which it is to be used. The shoe may be of rectangular oblong form, as shown in the drawings, or it may be of circular form, in which case each part would be semicircular in form. In either form of shoe one part is immovably attached to the end of the post, and the other part hinged thereto, or to the post, so that it can be swung back upon the stationary part to bring the two together for insertion in the button-hole, after which the movable part is swung back against the resistance of the vertically-placed spring to lock the button in the garment. 5o Thefoot of the movable part is enlarged, so as to engage the end of the spring in turning the post and present an obstacle to the free swinging of the post on its hinge.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical cen- (No model.)

I tral section showing the two parts of the shoe lying in the same plane. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the movable part of the shoe partially turned over upon the fixed part. Fig. 3 is a similar View showing the movable part folded over upon the fixed part for ap- 6o plying or detaching the button. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the button in the position shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a similar view wit-h the movable part of the shoe removed. Fig. 6 shows a plan and an edge view of the movable part of the shoe, and an elevation and an end view of one form of spring and the hinge pin or pintle.

A is the stationary part, and B the movable part, of the shoe; (3, the hollow post; D, the button-head; 8, one form of the spring, which is contained in the hollow post G; t, the pintle of the hinge, upon which swings the movable post B of the shoe.

One form of the enlargement of the foot of 7 the post B is shown at b in Fig. 6.

Modifications of the form of the spring, as well as of the enlargement of the foot of the movable post Z), can readily be made by any good mechanic without departing from the principle of my invention, so long as it embodies a divided shoe, in which the movable part is adapted to turn over upon the fixed part resistingly against a spring contained in the post.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a button or similar article, of a shoe made in two parts-one fixed and the other hinged-with a hollow post and 0 a spring contained in said post and adapted to act upon a projection on the hinged shoe lying behind the axis of the hinge, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a button or similar article, a shoe made in two parts, one part being fixed to a hollow post at right angles thereto, and the other being hinged to swing in a half-circle over upon the fixed part when the button is to be applied or detached. and to spring back into 1o the plane of the fixed part, a projection, b, on the hinged shoe, and a spring within the hollow post, all substantially as described.

CHAS. H. COOKE.

Witnesses:

SIMON S. LAPHAM, MARSTON LINCOLN. 

